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Round trip from parking lot to the top of Piestewa Peak and back.  Piestewa Peak (pronounced pye-ESS-tə-wah) was formerly known as Squaw Mountain – the name was changed a few years ago to honor Lori Piestewa , an American Indian woman who was killed in the Iraq war.  Hike / photos / sightseeing.  Accompanied by Denae and Fred.  This climb is approximately 1200 feet elevation – parking is at 1420′, mountain top is 2608′.  Late morning/early afternoon temperature while hiking was in excess of 110 degrees.  If you are doing this hike in the Summer months – head up before 8 am and take plenty of water.

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What a day in Hudson’s Hope was like for us. Well we started off by driving from Fort St John along the Peace River. What a beautiful drive. Along the way we saw a black bear and a few deer with their babies. Once we got to Hudson’s Hope we decided to go the Visitor Centre to get some ideas of where we should go and what we should do. The staff there was very helpful and nice. They started us off by pointing out the museum and the great view that was over by the museum to see the Peace River. Then they told us to go on a tour of the W.A.C Bennett Dam. So we checked out the museum which had a lot of great facts and history about Hudson’s Hope and then we headed up to the Dam 22km out of town. The W.A.C Bennett Dam had a wonderful and interesting hour long tour of the dam with great tour guides. Once the tour was done we thought that it would be a great idea to go for a hike up on one of the mountains. The staff at the Visitor Centre had given us a few choices of different places that we could go to hike. We chose the hike up Bullhead Mountain. It was a very nice day for a hike. As we walked up the mountain we looked back and we could see for miles and miles it was such an amazing view and as we got higher the view was even more spectacular. By the time that we were done our hike it was lunch time we thought that it would be a great idea to have lunch out at the Torwood Lodge. On our drive out to the lodge we saw to sheep and two elk. The lunch we had at the lodge was very good plus as we ate our lunch we had a great view looking out over the Williston Lake. Once we finished it was time for us to head back home. We had a GREAT time and can’t wait to come back and see and do more in Hudson’s Hope.

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Everyone is welcome to participate in the  “Ed Sidote” hike, scheduled for SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2010 along the Finger Lakes Trail on Map M-22 in the NW corner of Chenango County. Meeting time and place is 9 am at the FLT crossing of NY Rte 26, there’s an Otselic River fishing access parking area there.  A ‘reception’ of sorts will be held from 9 to 9:30 am to give everyone a chance to greet the hike’s namesake, Ed Sidote, before the hike begins. The hike is being led by Don Windsor and others from the Bullthistle Hiking Club, Ed Sidote’s home club. Don will lead the longer of the two hikes, a 7 mile loop utilizing the FLT and parallel state forest access roads.  Tom Bryden and Larry Blumberg will co-lead a much shorter, and slower paced, 2.5 mile loop hike also utilizing the FLT and parallel access roads. Both hikes will pass by the Winston Braxton Memorial bench, north of Will Warner Rd, erected in 1987 in his memory.  Legend has it that good luck follows all who sit on Winston’s Bench ! Please direct any questions to Don Windsor ( windsorda@yahoo.com ) and/or to Larry Blumberg ( LBlumberg@stny.rr.com ). And, more details for this hike can also be found on the FLT’s website, http://www.fltconference.org/trails/index.php/what-s-happening/hike-programs/wally-wood-hike/ Filed under: Finger Lakes , Finger Lakes Trail , Hiking Tagged: Bullthistle Hiking Club , Otselic River , Winston Braxton

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Photos and GPS data from my hike to Havasupai, 6/10/10 to 6/12/10.

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Long and steep walk up to the Nunningenberg. This whole region offers superb hiking. The 30m St. Fridli falls are a spectacular complement to this hike. But beware: the path down to the falls is not an official hiking trail; it is long, steep and difficult, just like the way back up. For good hikers only.

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Below are several photos from the three trails we hiked during our recent visit to the Great Smoky Mountains. The footbridge over the Rough Fork of the Cataloochee Creek is located near the Caldwell Fork Trailhead. According to Hiking Great Smoky Mountains by Rodney and Priscilla Albright, it’s the longest footbridge in the Great Smoky Mountains: While hiking the Boogerman Loop we saw three snakes – I nearly stepped on two of them: Beautiful forest scene on the loop hike: One of many fire pinks we saw on the Boogerman Loop: As mentioned in a post last week, we encountered a lot of rain during our hike to Hen Wallow Falls. We were extremely fortunate to have a 15 minute break in the rain just as we arrived at the falls, allowing us to enjoy them and shoot a few pictures: Lots of green on the Lumber Ridge Trail out of Tremont: There were a few places along Lumber Ridge that provided views of the surrounding mountains through the trees: There were also quite a few small azaleas bushes that were in full bloom along the trail as well: For more information and more details on each of these hikes, please click on the following links: * Boogerman Loop Hike * Hen Wallow Falls * Lumber Ridge Trail Jeff HikingintheSmokys.com Detailed information on trails in the Smoky Mountains; includes trail descriptions, key features, pictures, video, maps, elevation profiles, news, and more.

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Although Gregory Bald is an excellent destination anytime of the year, mid to late June is the absolute best time to make the trek to the summit. In addition to its excellent views into Cades Cove, Gregory Bald provides for one of the best flame azalea shows in the world during this time period. In fact, azalea lovers from all over the world come here to visit perhaps the finest display of flame azaleas anywhere on the planet. According to the Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association the various hybrids of azaleas on Gregory Bald are so impressive and unique that the British Museum of Natural History has collected samples of them. This isn’t an easy hike – the trail climbs over 3000 feet, and the roundtrip hike is 11.3 miles – but it’s well worth it. As mentioned in a previous post, I would definitely rate this as one of the top 3 hikes in the Smokies. Here’s a preview of some of the sights you’ll see at the top: For more information on this hike, please click here . Jeff HikingintheSmokys.com Detailed information on trails in the Smoky Mountains; includes trail descriptions, key features, pictures, video, maps, elevation profiles, news, hiking gear store, and more.

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A nice solo hike around the Carson Falls area of the Mt. Tam watershed.  Trail map is here . I parked at Azalea Hill parking, hit the trail and immediately found some wildflowers I hadn’t seen before. I love how driving 50 miles gets you into zones with different species. I took Pine Mountain Road up to the junction of Oat Hill Road,  saw about three people along here and a few more at Carson Falls but other than that had the place to myself on this Friday afternoon. I turned down on to Oat Hill Road with high expectations of finding some Indian Pink wildflowers which have eluded me in the South Bay. I was very happy to find just two plants perhaps just 0.5 miles down the road. After checking out what I thought was Oat Hill (I hadn’t gone far enough)  I ate lunch on a nice outcropping above the unknown name trail with spectacular views of the watershed and Kent Lake  as well as Bolinas Ridge.   After lunch I dropped down into what I thought was the Old Vee trail but it wasn’t so I’m not sure what this trail’s name is.  It is signposted and can be quite steep.  It’s not very well maintained in the upper section so tread carefully but is still a wonderfully quiet walk along a creek with some nice Redwoods. At the end of this trail I took a wrong turn since I was disoriented and was expecting to see the lake so I ended up checking out some of lower Kent Pump Road before realizing my error.  I headed back up the trail to Little Carson Trail. I hadn’t researched Carson Falls before my hike so even after thinking the lower part of the trail had a great series of cascades I was really surprised when rounding the final corner and seeing Carson Falls proper from below.   My pictures don’t do it justice and it must be amazing in winter just after a good storm. From here it was a quick slog up some switchbacks to Oat Hill Road and then back on Pine Mountain Road to parking. After the hike I checked out the dam at the end of Alpine Lake which I’d recommend if you haven’t seen it before. Enjoy!

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Although we’ve taken a bit of a break from blogging, we’re still hard at work on planning and training for the hike to Machu Picchu. Last week we booked our hike with Q’ente… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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This hike couldn’t have better.  The weather was cool and breezy and the trail was dry (w/small muddy patches).  We walked six miles which included finding 8 geocaches.   We were on the lookout for the B-24J Liberator bomber crash site, but no luck finding it.  A good friend said it is toward the end of the trail if hiking clockwise.  Maybe next time!!!. My all time favorite spot on the trail is  N21 24.208 W157 52.899

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